{"id":287888,"date":"2025-07-24T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287888\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:25:11","slug":"bbc-afp-and-other-news-outlets-warn-journalists-in-gaza-at-risk-of-starvation-israel-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287888\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation | Israel-Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the world\u2019s biggest news outlets, including BBC News, have joined forces to voice concern over the desperate plight of journalists in Gaza<\/a>, warning they are \u201cincreasingly unable to feed themselves and their families\u201d.<\/p>\n

Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Associated Press, BBC<\/a> News and Reuters said they were \u201cdesperately concerned\u201d about the journalists in Gaza after widespread warnings of mass starvation.<\/p>\n

With international reporters barred by Israel<\/a> from entering the strip, Palestinian journalists have been the only ones able to report from the ground in the war zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families,\u201d the news outlets said in a rare joint statement.<\/p>\n

\"GazaGaza facing man-made mass starvation, WHO chief says \u2013 video<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many months, these independent journalists have been the world\u2019s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.<\/p>\n

\u201cJournalists endure many deprivations and hardships in war zones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them. We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there.\u201d<\/p>\n

News agencies have been pleading for months with Israeli authorities to allow journalists freer movement to and from Gaza, but those requests have become more desperate in recent weeks after concern over the physical condition of some of those who had been trying to cover the conflict.<\/p>\n

This week, AFP asked Israel<\/a> to allow the immediate evacuation of its freelance contributors and their families from the strip. It followed its warning that those contributors were struggling to work because of the threat of starvation.<\/p>\n

Aftermath of an Israeli strike on a tent housing journalists in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Photograph: Hatem Khaled\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Freelance journalists working for international outlets have warned that hunger and a lack of clean water were leading to illness and exhaustion.<\/p>\n

A group of journalists working at AFP said this week that \u201cwithout immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Society of Journalists at AFP said: \u201cWe have lost journalists in conflicts: some have been injured; others taken prisoner. But none of us can ever remember seeing colleagues die of hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n

A photographer working for AFP sent a message on social media at the weekend stating<\/a>: \u201cI no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can\u2019t work any more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the world\u2019s biggest news outlets, including BBC News, have joined forces to voice concern over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-287888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908204503739541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}